TRUE REPENTANCE Author Unknown

God... commanded all men everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30b).

True repentance is keenly painful, but very beneficial in its results. Some people easily forget their period of repentance; other never do. This is referring to the period when a person fully feels what one has been. The Spirit of God allows Christians to lose all memory of horrible pit and miry clay of sins out of which God has delivered them. The apostle Paul never forgot what he was; and that memory reminded him that he became what he "now is" by the marvelous grace of God.

Repentance does not mean that you will never commit those sins again. It means that you have, by God's grace, reached a place where you do positively the other things. The only truly repentant person, in the fullest analysis, is the person who allows God to deal with what was wrong - sin.

Set your heart and mind toward God and let the holy light of Jesus Christ search through every wrong and opening. The result will be a marvelous readjustment of your whole life.